Todd Rundgren: Hawking (Live)

Perhaps the greatest song ever written about a world-famous scientist, this 1990 performance by Todd Rundgren of “Hawking” is one of the best I’ve seen. It’s quite a bit slower than the album version (which must have been hard for the musicians — playing really slow and keeping good time can be very difficult), but Todd’s voice is amazing and the band is just terrific.

I see your skepticism. However, I think there is a chance for something to happen. Especially considering the fact that Syria seems to be imploding.

The only thing I would like to see added is assurances about the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Dome of the Rock. Likud is no better than the BJP, who 20 years ago incited the destruction of Babri Mosque. I want it in writing that those two will not be allowed to be touched.

The only thing I would like to see added is assurances about the Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the Dome of the Rock. Likud is no better than the BJP, who 20 years ago incited the destruction of Babri Mosque. I want it in writing that those two will not be allowed to be touched.

I don't agree with you. Likud hasn't done anything to touch the Al Aqsa mosque or the Dome of the Rock. Or do you think that allowing Jews to move their lips in prayer is somehow damaging the mosques?

This is the same party that still whitewashes the King David Hotel bombing, done by their predecessor groups, among other actions around that time. The same party that went into coalition with that asshole Lieberman's party, and several more things that are not at the top of my head at the moment.

I simply don't and never will trust Likud. They simply are too similar to the BJP in India for me to trust them.

This is the same party that still whitewashes the King David Hotel bombing, done by their predecessor groups, among other actions around that time. The same party that went into coalition with that asshole Lieberman's party, and several more things that are not at the top of my head at the moment.

I simply don't and never will trust Likud.

Well, considering they have never done anything to damage the mosques, what makes you think that they have any intention of doing so? Also: they're in power, so they would have already started by now, don't you think?

It's impossible in Israel for any party to hold complete power, they always have to join with little one-issue parties in order to get a coalition.

The major issue in Israel at this moment considers "Haredim" the enemy, not Palestinians, Arabs or Muslims.

I understand that. However, in both Sweden and Finland, when far-right parties managed to get into parliament, they were completely ignored and neglected in terms getting coalitions for governments together. Sweden had an almighty conniption over as a bonus.

Likud on the other hand, decided going with Lieberman's party was a plus. In my mind, this means that Likud approves of what Lieberman thinks in regards to the Arabs.

And, to be honest, the Haredi seem like Jewish version of Salafis to me. However, as I have never met a Jewish Person in real life, I admit that this might be more than a little off.

Romney on Friday accused Santorum of expanding government during his two terms as a congressman and two terms as a senator.

"I hope that people take a very close look at his record because he was in Congress for about 20 years and during that time the size of the federal government doubled," Romney said.

"And, by the way, he voted to raise the debt ceiling five different times without compensating cuts," Romney added. He said Santorum voted for "billions of dollars in earmarks."
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I understand that. However, in both Sweden and Finland, when far-right parties managed to get into parliament, they were completely ignored and neglected in terms getting coalitions for governments together. Sweden had an almighty conniption over as a bonus.

Likud on the other hand, decided going with Lieberman's party was a plus. In my mind, this means that Likud approves of what Lieberman thinks in regards to the Arabs.

And, to be honest, the Haredi seem like Jewish version of Salafis to me. However, as I have never met a Jewish Person in real life, I admit that this might be more than a little off.

I am Haredi, we come in a bunch of different flavors. Some Haredim are asshats, but most of us are just normal people.

Because in the past Santorum has gone along on various spending bills many of the diehard fiscal conservatives think he's too "liberal".

Yes, really.

It's actually really embarrassing to use the term 'fiscal conservative' to describe these people.

There is nothing, nothing, conservative about this brand of cultish lunacy. Nor, in fact, is there anything fiscal. It's radical nihilism. It's frothing rage created out of whole cloth by media, nothing more than Pavlovian anger at the words 'debt' or 'spend' without any understanding of what they mean.

In the South, I explained to the earnest and well-meaning man that Jews do not, in fact, have horns and that it's a mistranslation of 'coruscua', rays of light, as 'cornua', horns, which was then repeated and showed up in art.

In the UK, being drunk, I threw up the horns and screamed "Metal gods can never die!"

In the South, I explained to the earnest and well-meaning man that Jews do not, in fact, have horns and that it's a mistranslation of 'coruscua', rays of light, as 'cornua', horns, which was then repeated and showed up in art.

In the UK, being drunk, I threw up the horns and screamed "Metal gods can never die!"

Driving, no. Jackson, yes.
I was a teen when I was living in NJ. My grandmother lives in Forked River. I went to Lakewood when I was up there during this past summer. It got way bigger.

Yeah. Almost all suburbia now. But not completely because of the Pinelands. Just thinking back about driving or riding my bike through Jackson with the old Russian Orthodox Church there. Used to be a lot of pre-revolution Russian immigrants there.

Yeah. Almost all suburbia now. But not completely because of the Pinelands. Just thinking back about driving or riding my bike through Jackson with the old Russian Orthodox Church there. Used to be a lot of pre-revolution Russian immigrants there.

Hi Lizards.. Interesting thread...I'm multitasking tonight..Reading here.. Signing and reading court sh*t papers for my Folks estate and The Star Trek movie is on in the background..I never watch Sci-Fi so this is a change up..
OK..I saw this scene where they stopped the space ship in 3 seconds..Really? Trillions of MPH to zero without anybody wearing seatbelts?

Hi Lizards.. Interesting thread...I'm multitasking tonight..Reading here.. Signing and reading court sh*t papers for my Folks estate and The Star Trek movie is on in the background..I never watch Sci-Fi so this is a change up..
OK..I saw this scene where they stopped the space ship in 3 seconds..Really? Trillions of MPH to zero without anybody wearing seatbelts?

Heartland Institute general counsel Maureen Martin has sent letters to the DeSmogBlog and several other publications demanding that we remove all Heartland-related documents that we posted on February 14, as well as all related commentary.

After due consideration, we could see no basis in fact or law for Heartland's demand that we remove these documents.

The Heartland letter is reproduced in full below with our observations.

Koch says that their contribution was for health care, not global warming:

The documents presented by the blog indicate "[the Foundation] returned as a Heartland donor in 2011 with a contribution of $200,000. We expect to push up their level of support in 2012...if our focus continues to align with their interests." But this is not so. The Foundation gave just $25,000 to Heartland in 2011 (the only such donation to that organization in more than 10 years) and that funding was specifically directed to a healthcare research program, and not climate change research, as was erroneously reported.

Statistically speaking, the Foundation's contribution represents approximately one-twentieth of one percent of Heartland's total funding over that ten year period. The Foundation has made no further commitments of funding to Heartland.

And indeed, when you look at the fundraising document, the coding next to Koch's donation is "HCN" which certainly seems to be their health care code--other donors with that code include Bayer, Amgen, EliLilly, and GlaxoSmithKline.

Hi Lizards.. Interesting thread...I'm multitasking tonight..Reading here.. Signing and reading court sh*t papers for my Folks estate and The Star Trek movie is on in the background..I never watch Sci-Fi so this is a change up..
OK..I saw this scene where they stopped the space ship in 3 seconds..Really? Trillions of MPH to zero without anybody wearing seatbelts?

Yep. You have to hope that the inertial dampener tech doesn't run in MS-DOS or something else where a sudden BDOS will destroy the ship.

You should be very very skeptical of any claims made by Megan McArdle - she is deeply connected to the Koch Brothers and other climate change denial groups, and is definitely NOT a disinterested observer in this.

Koch says that their contribution was for health care, not global warming:

The documents presented by the blog indicate "[the Foundation] returned as a Heartland donor in 2011 with a contribution of $200,000.

Presumably this is in aid of talking us all into HSA's.

Spending on health care would fall by approximately 30 percent, without negative effects on health, if more people chose high-deductible insurance and self-insured for small medical expenses by opening health savings accounts (HSAs). Health care providers would become more efficient if they had to compete for our health care dollars. A whole layer of bureaucracy in government agencies, health maintenance organizations (HMOs), and insurance companies could be eliminated.[Link: heartland.org...]

The class of warships that Earth had in B5 were shown, initially, using rotating sections, to provide inhabitants with an acceleration to force them down to the floor rather than just float around.

Only one problem - angular momentum. Rotating mass is difficult to deal with in real life, and in fiction is pretty much ignored.

The B5 ships with their rotating sections could not have been turned in direction very easily, and trying to force the issue would probably have torn the ships apart (based upon their design and likely construction.)

It doesn't depend on her credibility, though. The other documents show that the Koch contribution was marked for health care-- not that that's any better, morally since the Heartland Institute's propaganda on that subject is repellent and foul. But it does make the 'strategy' document that much more questionable.

The big question, of course, is who the million-dollar anonymous donor is.

Oh, and if Heartland violated its 503(c) status with lobbying and candidate support.

The class of warships that Earth had in B5 were shown, initially, using rotating sections, to provide inhabitants with an acceleration to force them down to the floor rather than just float around.

Only one problem - angular momentum. Rotating mass is difficult to deal with in real life, and in fiction is pretty much ignored.

The B5 ships with their rotating sections could not have been turned in direction very easily, and trying to force the issue would probably have torn the ships apart (based upon their design and likely construction.)

I don't know if they are fake or not, but the irony I'm savoring from having the CLIMATEGATE!! exploiters having their own documents released publicly is the best tasting irony I've savored in a long while.

You should be very very skeptical of any claims made by Megan McArdle - she is deeply connected to the Koch Brothers and other climate change denial groups, and is definitely NOT a disinterested observer in this.

I don't see how connections refute arguments, though. It's not like I rely on unverifiable opinions. The Fundraising PDF is available, see p. 22 for the table. It clearly states that 200,000$ is not a 2011 donation but a projected 2012 donation, so the memo got it mixed up. And the code is indeed HCN, as in Pfizer et al., so the memo is outright incorrect in tying it to AGW agitprop.

Santorum sees the situation as so dire that during a Lincoln Day Dinner in Mason, Ohio on Friday, he likened the election to World War II and urged voters in the state to model themselves after the Greatest Generation of the 1940s that fought the war. He extended that metaphor on Sunday in a speech to more than 2,000 supporters at a megachurch in Cumming, about an hour outside of Atlanta.

"Remember, the greatest generation for a year and a half, sat on the sidelines while Europe was under darkness," Santorum said, going on to explain why Americans delayed entering the war. "We're a hopeful people. We think, 'Well, you know, it'll get better. Yeah, he's a nice guy. I mean, it won't be near as bad as what we think. This will be okay. I mean, yeah, maybe he's not the best guy after a while, after a while you find out some things about this guy over in Europe who's not so good of a guy after all ... '"

"It'll be harder for this generation to figure it out. There's no cataclysmic event," he said.

I don't really have much of a zombie plan. I figure I'll zip down to Costco and hole up there while everyone else is busy getting shot by the gun shop owner who actually wants to keep his guns and shit.

Then, after about four days or so, I'll ring up the gun shop guy and see if he wants to trade any guns for butter. He should be pretty hungry by then.

I don't really have much of a zombie plan. I figure I'll zip down to Costco and hole up there while everyone else is busy getting shot by the gun shop owner who actually wants to keep his guns and shit.

Then, after about four days or so, I'll ring up the gun shop guy and see if he wants to trade any guns for butter. He should be pretty hungry by then.

Hungry enough to shoot you and take your butter. And he'll still have his guns (and your wife and your gold and your heritage seeds).

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Frank says:

Don't clap for destroying America. This place is as good as you want to make it. -- Zappa introduced "Billy the Mountain" by revealing that Billy and Ethel took a vacation trip across the United States, destroying it in the process. This was Zappa's response to the applause and cheers from the audience. Cleveland Colliseum, 1971